In this post I will very briefly discuss the discourse surrounding the ethics of the  role of emotion in testimony of suffering/evil. This stuff is incredibly complex- I’ve just included some things I found interesting. Hannah Arendt’s report of the trial of Adolf Eichmann- Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil- was written with an apathetic tone which was met with intense criticism and accused of “‘heartlessness’…